Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Facebook is Contrite?

Mark Zuckerberg claims that Facebook has "missed the mark" on privacy controls and promises to deliver ones that easier to use.

Too little too late? What do you think?

New Privacy Controls

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Web 3.0 Explained

Check this out...it's a page that attempts to explain Web 1.0 vs 2.0 vs 3.0. There are a lot of videos to watch as well.



What is 3.0?

1. Integration of all technologies
2. end of the desktop
3. smart phone -- truly smart (knows history and location)
4. Bing - Decision engine not just search engine
5. semantic web = human language processing /recognition / makes decisions and thinks like a "human being" (not machine returning lists of data).
6. http://www.wolframalpha.com/
7. Geo-spatial
8. total integration of data and personalization of info/data, inc my own history.
9. I don't need to think!!


What's the problem with this???
1. Big Brother! maybe not... it's 'just' data, algorithms, and aggregation technologies.
2. creepy? "it's only creepy because you're not used to it yet"
3. what happens when i need to think?
4. are we all "addicted" to technologies -- we can't really de-link
5. I'm impatient -- are we lazy and impatient? We won't wait and we don't want to process it ourselves.
6. what about human knowledge and human activity???
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Facebook in Real LIfe

This is a really old video, but it pretty much summarizes the silliness of Facebook.


British people make it funnier.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

check out this visualization on what's private and what's public on FB (from 2005-2010):

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mobile Usage

http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/mobile-social-networking-2/

I found this article that talks about how over half of mobile internet usage is on social networking sites. It's interesting because as more and more of our internet usage becomes mobile we are also greatly increasing our social networking usage showing its importance in our culture.